Senior AI FDE — Production Systems Architect

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Paid time off

Parental leave

Flexible work options

Job summary

Amazon Inc. seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with a strategic enterprise customer to design, build, deploy, and operate AI-powered production systems alongside the customer's engineering team.

In this role you own outcomes end-to-end, drive architecture decisions across services, and scale production-grade AI solutions while traveling 30-50%. You will mentor junior FDEs and help shape reusable platforms and patterns for the practice.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Experience communicating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders.
• Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale (developing AI agents a plus).
• Experience with AI tools: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery across customer engagements. Own the technical strategy and execution for complex, multi-workstream customer AI programs.
• Make architecture decisions that span multiple services and organizational boundaries.
• Align technical approach with the customer's long-term technology strategy.
• Architect and build production AI systems at scale and design foundational architectures.
• Drive clarity where business problems or tech approaches are not fully defined.
• Own production excellence across workstreams and establish testing and observability standards.

Skills

Software development

Architecture design

Mentorship / leadership

Customer engagement

Programming languages overview

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

AWS services

Job description

Amazon Inc. seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with a strategic enterprise customer to design, build, deploy, and operate AI-powered production systems alongside the customer's engineering team.

In this role you own outcomes end-to-end, drive architecture decisions across services, and scale production-grade AI solutions while traveling 30-50%. You will mentor junior FDEs and help shape reusable platforms and patterns for the practice.